Explanation:
Thursday, shortly after local sunrise over central Asia,
this Soyuz spacecraft
floated over a sea of golden clouds
during its descent by parachute through
planet Earth's dense atmosphere.
On board were
Expedition 42 commander Barry Wilmore of NASA
and Alexander Samokutyaev and Elena Serova
of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos).
Touch down
was at approximately 10:07 p.m.
EDT (8:07 a.m. March 12, Kazakh time)
southeast of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.
The
three were returning from low Earth orbit,
after almost six months on the International Space Station
as members of the Expedition 41 and Expedition 42 crews.